Hydra 1.6 - December 10th 2018

Hydra 1.5.1 - Octobre 4th 2018

Updated for new iPhone sizes (including iPhone XS Max and more).

Updated for Apple Watch Series 4.

Fixed a bug affecting the insertion date in Photos app.

Hydra 1.5 - August 23rd 2018

Hydra 1.5 now supports the telephoto camera in Zoom mode on iPhone with double lenses as well as the front camera in HDR & Lo-Light modes. Hydra can now take selfies, with much improved quality in poor lighting conditions, and Zoom mode can also go up to 8x from now on.

Added support for the telephoto lens in Zoom Mode.

Added support for the front camera to take selfies in HDR and Lo-light modes.

Improved localization.

Hydra 1.5 now requires iOS 10.0.

Hydra 1.4.4 - June 19th 2018

Updated the crash reports framework.

Hydra 1.4.3 - April 23rd 2018

Apple Watch App Improvements

Modernised Hydra Watch app to support watchOS 4. Watch app is now faster and more reliable than before.

New haptic feedback when shooting completes and when autoshoot timer advances.

Requires an Apple Watch with watchOS 2.2 or more recent.

Hydra 1.4.2 - January 31st 2018

Fixed an issue causing a lack of audio in recorded videos.

Hydra 1.4.1 - November 3rd 2017

Specific black image bug fix.

Hydra 1.4 - October 27th 2017

Updated to support iPhone X.

Improved Volume button shutter handling.

Hydra 1.3.6 - August 10th 2017

Fixed an issue preventing the Watch app from loading.

Other minor enhancements / modernization of the application interface.

Hydra 1.3.5 - July 13th 2017

Compatibility with future version of iOS:

Fixed image capture hang.

Fixed image gallery problems (hangs, lack of image).

Other improvements:

Improvements with handling pictures in iCloud Photo Library (download of pictures that are not currently available on device).

Hydra 1.2 - October 9th 2015

Support for iOS 9 Quick Actions on iPhone 6s / 6s+ to select capture mode from home screen when starting Hydra.

Better support for iOS 9 San Francisco font throughout the app.

Fixed a problem related to iPad split screen.

Hydra 1.1.2 - July 11th 2015

Fixed permission requests on first launch. We've improved the permission requests workflow based on the feedback of a few users that needed to go to the settings pane under some circumstances. This should not be necessary anymore.

Image gallery support for older devices with less than 512 MB (iPhone 4S, etc.). Images are displayed at a possibly smaller size to fit device memory.

Added Original & Digitized Time(s) EXIF metadata to saved photos.

Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

Hydra 1.0.2 - March 10th 2015

Hydra has been localized to 5 new languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Turkish, Arabic, and Japanese (note for Japanese, help contents coming soon)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:

Fixed gallery glitches

Better handling of remote data that must be downloaded in the gallery (iCloud photo library)

Fixed crashes linked to background state

Fixed other rare crashes

Fixed a problem where original image wouldn't be saved even if option was enabled.

Hydra 1.0.1 - February 6th 2015

Video recording improvements:

Hydra will now autofocus before the video recording starts, but it becomes a manual process during the recording. This avoid focus shakes during capture. (thanks Allen B. for feedback)

Photo improvements:

12MP HDR on iPhone and 8MP on iPad are sharper (bug fix).

Permission update:

As per user request, and even though Hydra only uses microphone to record sound for videos, Hydra will now work without microphone access (if you refuse access in first launch). In that case, recorded video will be silent. You can enable microphone at any time from global Privacy settings.

Location and Microphone access (optional) are now better explained when authorisation is requested.

Bug fixes and enhancement:

GPS coordinate fix for West and South hemispheres.

Silence switch is now observed for all photo modes. Video mode still emits start/stop sound because of a limitation of iOS. (we could remove it altogether, let us now what you prefer).